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There are many audio format converters available to choose from, many free, many not. In this category I choose to stay away from freebies unless thoroughly tested. You'll find that a lot of the free converters either do a terrible job, support only a couple formats, are super slow, or come packaged with some good ole' free spyware.
What to look for: Good price, speed of conversion, accuracy of conversion, quality of sound after conversion, multiple file conversion, multiple formats supported, ease of use, good customer support.
Our choices:
Acoustica Audio Converter Pro - There are a few reasons this is the number one choice here. The "right click" or context menu integration is a feature that makes use of this product easy easy easy! The quality of converted files is excellent, and the customer support from the company cannot be beat. The application supports many popular
formats which lets you convert back and forth for testing your song on all types of players and situations. And the price is very reasonable, especially since all upgrades are free after purchase. Oh, and we love the little train sound when it's done :-)
DBPoweramp - This is an excellent deal for the price, (there is a free version too with less functionality). I use this for converting my rendered wav files into .ape or .flac format. Those formats are known as "Lossless compression". Same quality as a wav file but smaller file size. Unlike mp3 or ogg which is a MUCH smaller file size, but you lose a lot of quality and you certainly don't want your "master"
files stored in a lossy format. DBPoweramp also comes with a ripper, burner, tag editor and some other features, but I have had the burner fail too many times to call this app a good burner. The ripper is great and will rip your CDs right to .ape or other lossess format, that way you always have a perfect copy of purchased music if you get hammered and sit on your new Disturbed CD. Another thing the ripper works for is protected wma files. I purchase some music online, burn it with windows media player,
rip the new CD with DBPoweramp and there I have ape and mp3 files. And everyone says it is so difficult to do this? I don't see it.
ContextConvert - This is one kick ass file type converter! Not just for audio types, but graphics and video types as well. Becomes part of your right click context menu and could not be easier to use. Make sure you check this one out. Not free, but well worth the money for a lifetime of ease of use.
Mp3 SoundStream - This is
one cool little tool, convert any mp3 file into flash, complete with player
buttons and a ready made html page, just port it to your web site. I have a
bunch on one of my sites for my band Bottom Feeders, look for the red player controls. there are
quite a few options to customize the controls and look of the page, but it only
converts to 56k stream, but it sounds pretty good compared to a 56k mp3 stream.
Mp3 to Ogg Lab - Simple mp3 to ogg conversion, fast, reliable, and free
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